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PRESENTED BY 



THE 

/>«Mte» 0/ ABIGAIL LAY 

Relict of John Lay 

of Lyme 

TO THE 

General Court of Connecticut 

To which are Added 

OTHER DOCUMENTS 

Relating to 

KING PHILIP'S WAR 



Issued at the General Court of the Society of Colonial 
Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 

by its 

Governor, Henry Dexter Sharpe, Esq. 
and the 
Council of the Society 



December 30, 1920 



Providence : Printed for the Society by the Standard Printing Co. from 
the original MSS. in the Archives of the State of Connecticut 



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HE unwilling part which the Rhode 
Island colony played in King Philip's 
War is, in its details, very obscure. 
We know the general movement of 
affairs, but little of particular events or of the actors 
in them. Any sources which add to our knowledge 
of these happenings and of those involved in them 
are of importance to us. 

The documents here printed are petitions and 
letters which throw a good deal of light on the great 
Indian war as it affected the people of Rhode Island. 
They are drawn from a mass of documentary evidence, 
by no means all or even the greater part of which 
has seen the light in anything but a fragmentary form 
or as the unquoted source of a historian's statement. 
This evidence, preserved in the archives of Connecti- 
cut and Massachusetts, it is our intention to publish, 
so that, if it be possible, everything which bears upon 
the part the Rhode Island Colony was forced to play 
in the struggle may be in print at the command of 
future investigators. 

In this book we are still drawing from the archives 

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of our neighbor on the West, and by the courtesy 
of the State of Connecticut, through its scholarly 
Librarian, Mr. George S. Godard, to whom we here 
return the thanks of the Society, we present five 
original documents. 

The first is the petition of Abigail, widow of John 
Lay, to the General Court of Connecticut asking 
that body "so to consider of it that her sonn," one of 
those men wounded in the Swamp Fight and sent to 
Rhode Island, that is, to the island of that name, or 
Aquidneck, for care, "may speedyly bee released. " 
Too little is known of these wounded. We have 
printed the names of several in Dr. Cooper s Letter ', 
and here we have one more. It is to be hoped that 
others may yet be found. There were one hundred 
and fifty of them and they were kindly treated, it 
appears. In fact, Major Cranston, who had charge 
of this patient, had "bin very careful of him." The 
Major was careful in other matters, too, for Mrs. 
Lay says that the young man "is detained until the 
said Cranson bee sattisfyed for his dyet and cure," from 
which it looks as though the gratitude of the sister 

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colony to our Rhode Island Samaritans was not plainly- 
expressed. 

Major Cranston's attitude, in thus refusing to re- 
lease young Lay till Connecticut should pay for the 
care taken of him, while at first it seems unsym- 
pathetic, is excused, at least, by the contents of the 
next two papers. The first of these is a letter from 
Major Peleg Sanford of Newport, to Governor Wins- 
low of Plymouth asking, for the fourth time, and 
after a lapse of nearly two years, for the payment of 
his bare " disburfments " in behalf of the wounded. 
The second is what we can hardly help calling a 
miserably mean epistle from John Allyn, Secretary 
of the Connecticut Colony, to the same Major San- 
ford in reply, apparently, to such a letter as Sanford 
had sent Gov. Winslow — and this under date of 
1685 ! A shrewd Scot was Major Cranston ! Secretary 
Allyn's postscript, while it may stir our risibles, ac- 
quits him of any sense of humor. 

These three documents are to be read with Dr. 
Cooper's letter to Gov. Winslow, which the Society 
issued in 19 16. 

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Major Talcott's letter, the fourth document 
printed, tells some things of importance about affairs 
in Rhode Island in the summer of 1676 — it is dated 
on July 4 of that year from Mr. Stanton's "Farm 
house at monocontauge," our Quonochontaug, and 
light on what happened in those days is very scanty 
and very desirable. 

As the last document we print what is probably, 
for Rhode Island history, the most important of all, 
the second petition of Mr. Richard Smith, of Wick- 
ford, that stanch friend of Connecticut, to the Com- 
missioners of the United Colonies, praying for recom- 
pense for the almost destructive injuries to his estate, 
suffered in the War, and especially in the Swamp Fight 
Campaign eight years before the date of his appeal. 

It will be remembered that at Mr. Smith's house, 
later the Updike homestead, and now known as the 
" Babbitt farm," the Colonial soldiery from Plymouth 
and the Bay gathered for the attack on the Narra- 
gansetts, and that thither they returned after the 
battle in the Swamp. There, too, they buried most 
of their dead. Something of all this we know, in 

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its general lines, with here and there a detail filled 
in by Church, Dudley or Major Bradford, but this 
petition sheds much more light on what went on 
day by day in the camp, on the methods of subsistence 
in the army and on the ruinous burden the Colonial 
authorities thought it no shame to put upon a man 
whom they could not accuse of any great partiality 
toward their enemies, or even toward the barely 
tolerated people of the Rhode Island colony. 

Edwin Aylsworth Burlingame 
Howard Willis Preston 
Norman Morrison Isham 



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Abigail Lay's Petition 



To the Honnoured Gennerall Court 
to sett at Heartford. May y e 11 th 1676 



The Humble complaint of Abigail Lay Relict of John Lay 
Sheweth 

That yo r complainant Sonn 1 beeing impressed in the country 
Service and wounded at the Swamp fight last December, 
was w th severall other wounded men conveyed to Rhoade Island 
for cure and hath continued there ever since and hath bin 
and is now w th Major Cranson 2 who hath as I am informed bin 
very carefull of him so that now hee is indeferently recovered 
so that he can walke about and is now desireous to returne 
home but is detained untill the said Cranson bee sattisfyed 
for his dyet and cure w ch is matter of great griefe and trouble 
to yo r complainant beeing a widdow and therefore not capasitated 
to mannage the matter for his release ; and therefore prayes 
this Honnoured Court so to consider of it that her sonn 
may speedyly bee released, that so hee may bee at liberty to 
returne to his Relations. w ch is the earnest desire and 
request of — 

Yo r honnours in all 
Submission 

Abigail Lay 



Connecticut State Library 
Connecticut Archives : War 1 : 70 



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THE ACTION OF THE GENERAL COURT 
OF CONNECTICUT 



At a Court of Election held at Hartford 
May ii 1676 

In answer to the complaint or petition of Mrs Abi- 
gail Lay of Lyme, that her son is detayned at Rhode Island, 
this Court haue seen just cause to order that the Treasurer 
send to Captaine Cranston the thankes of this Court for 
his care and paynes about o r wounded men, and 
to desire him to release the said Lay's sonn that he 
may com home ; and to engage to the sayd Captaine 
just sattisfaction for his cost and care upon him ; 
and allso to send him a barrell of oatmeale and 
forty bushells of Indian corn in part pay, and 
to desire him to send an acco* of what is due to 
him from the Colony for his care and charge 
about the wounded men. 

Connecticut Colonial Record, Vol. II, 276. 



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Major Sanford's Letter 



Newport Septem 1 " 7 th 1677 

Honrd S r3 

Nefsesaty inforfeth me to giue you the truble of 
perufall of this my fourth Requeft : Relateing unto 

my accoumpts, occationed by your defieres &c 

I haue at Laft Receiued from the Hon rd Conftant Southwo rth4 
in the Behalf e of the Comittee a letter datted Aug st 17: 1677 
with my accoumpt, Signifying that for want of 
diftinguishing the perticulare difburfments for each 
Collony, they had Returned them, and further intimated 
a properly Relateing unto y e Comitioners of y e United 
Collonyes, of which I was euer Ignarrent for I finde 
noe such order, nor defiere from yourfelf, and if 
itt had Beene Soe, itt would haue Beene difficult to 
haue effected, att Such time, and In Such Confution 
as pore men weare then in : So I studied noe delayes 

But forthwith was Redy att yo r requeft, and did 

difburfe my mony for the preferuation of them, 
which if I had done without any order for petty sake 
itt would haue Beene Rationall that I should haue 
beene Reimburfed from y e partyes or Collonyes y* 
perticulerly Conferned, But it is otherwife haueing 
your Hand perticulerly to aply my selfe unto (and 
ingaged) theirfore pray you will be pleafed to Confid r 
my Condition and nefsefaty and take Some Effectuall 
way Whereby I may haue my Jufte dues, which is 
all I Requeft (without Sallerry which y° haue allowed 
unto others, I once againe defiere Humbly you will no 1 
Bee Undmindfull of me, haueing Noe other perfson to 

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Aply my Selfe unto. But your Honor (as I am Senfable 
of) for Sattiffaction. therefore Beging your pardon 
muft Still adrefs my Selfe unto you for my Jufte 

due and Right, the which I Requeft I may not 

Longer Bee keept from 

& if my acco ts Conferne y e Comitioners of y e United Collonys 

I humbly Conceiue it is moft proper for yo r Hon r s 

prefentment But I shall not afsume on that 

Subject: But patiently waight for yo r Hon rs Anfwere 

yor deriction how or in what maner way or method 

I am further to Apply my Selfe, which hoope and 

defiere may Bee speedely : I haue offten heard that 

Euery mans Biufnes will be noebodyes, 

S r I am greatly trubled for my Soe often trubleing 
your Hon r : it is nefsefaty : and for my owne : Soe Humbly 
Crave your pardon I take leaue and Remaine 

Honrd S r yo r Moft Reale 
Humble Servente 

Peleg Sanford 5 

Connecticut State Library 
Connecticut Archives. War 1 : 131. 



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THE ACTION OF THE GENERAL COURT 
OF CONNECTICUT 



Major Peleg Sandford haveing presented to the Governo r 
acco 1 of disbursements he made in the late Indian war, upon 
the wounded soldiers, which is this day presented to the Court 
and hath been viewed and considered by the Court, and the 
Court not findeing it ever allowed by the Commissioners of 
the Colonys, and findeing the acco* itselfe in some of the arti- 
cles very unjust, and therefore doe see no reason to alow the 
acco*; yet knoweing there may be something due to Mr. 
Sandford, doe see cause to grant him ten pownds, if he will 
rest sattisfyed therein, or els, if he please to sattisfy the Court 
(of) the justness of his articles of clayme, the Court will doe 
him justice therein in ordering the sayd Mr. Sandford what 
shall justly appear to be his due, provided it be don by Octo- 
ber Court next. 

May 14, 1685. 

Colonial Records of Connecticut, Vol. Ill, 170. 



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Secretary Allyn's Letter 



Hartford May. 29 1685. 

Hono rd S r 

I am comanded to Informe you that the Gov 1 " prefented to o r Gen} 
courte May. / 14: 1685. an acco! he receiued from your selfe of seuerale 
difburf ments you say you / made in Late Indian wars which they haue 
Confidered & examined, & canot Looke at /it as a Just acco 1 fundry 
artickles in it being to their Judgments unreafonable & this / Colony 
very Little If at all concerned & the Time fett for ajufting of acco 1 ? 
being paft / they doe not see reafon to allow your demands yet Not 
w th standing seeing pofibly you may / haue shewed kindnefs to some 
of o r souldiers, they haue agreed to alow you Ten pownds If /you 
pleafe to reft sattisfyed there with, but If that will not content you If/ 
you see reafson & can make your clay me to be Just from this colony 
they will pay / what so appears prouided it be done by October Court 
next, your Anfwer/ here to will be necefsary. If you expect farther 
from this colony / but I shall not enlarg yet remayne Hono rd S r your 
humble seruant 

Per order John Allyn sec r6 

poft script 

S r your damage by pilfering &c in your acco* how we came to 

be chargeable w th it is wonderful & sundry perticulars are to Highcharged 

For the Hono rd Major Peleg Sandford Efq r 

at hif houfe in Newport on Rhode Island 

Connecticut State Library 
Connecticut Archives. War I : 145b 



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Major Talcott's Letter 



Thefe./. 

For the Hon b ! william Leet efsqu r 
Gou r : and the Hond : Councill 
at Hartford./. 



July 4 1676 at M r Stantons 7 Farm House at monacontauge 8 
Hon rd : Gen 1 : 

These may acquaint you that we made Nipsachooke 9 on y e 
first of July and seized 4 of y e enemye, and on the 3 d instant 
being y e Sabboth in y e morning about Sun an houre high made y e enemeys 
place of refidence, and afsaulted them who prefently in fwamped them 
felues in a great Spruse swamp, we girt the s d : Swamp and with 
englifh & indian sould rs : dreft it, and within 3: hours flew and 
tooke prif oners 171 : of which 45 : prif oners being women and children 
that y e indians faued aliue, and the other flayne, in which 
engagem* : were flayne 34 men toke 15 : Armes, among which 
*slaught r : that ould peice of venume suncksqua Magnus 10 was 
flayne and o r old ffriend watawaikefon 11 pefsecus 12 his agent was 
flayne, and in his poket Cap 1 : Allyns 13 Ticket for his free 
pafsage up to his head Quart rs : on July 3 d : we turned down to pro 
uidence and receiued enformation that y e enemye was there to 
make peace with some of road Island, upon which enformation 
being willing to fet o r feal to it, posted away, and dreft prouidence 
neck 14 and after that y e same daye dreft Warwick neck 15 and flew and 
tooke Captiues 67: of which were 18: men flayne Tooke 11 Armes 
Three loft in y e riuers and Swamps that y e enemy Threw out of their 
hands on purpofe to defeat us, and of this number is 27 : Captiues 
and the whole numb r : taken & flayne in these 2: engage ts : is 238: 
not unto us but unto y e Lord be the prayes, we loft but one of o r 
indians in both o r engagem ts and none of o r english, for which 
we haue cause to blefs the name of o r great god that hath fo gratio- 

* Opposite these lines in the margin: — 
an the old sunck Squas 
great counceller was Slayne./. 

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usly pleafed to defend and preferue us in y e midst of all o r difficultys 
and on y e same 3 d instant haueing aduice that philip was beat down 
towerds mount hope, were desireous to have wayted upon him, but 
could not preuaile with our Indians altho : all pofible argm ts ufed by m r 
Fitch and all others y 1 had any intrefs in them (but we muft trade 
in another way when we ufe indian foulde rs : againe for preuenting of their 
turning their backs upon us) upon which confideration my councill refolued 
it was not safe for us and the health of y e Colonyes intrefs in o r indi 
=ans to break with them and o r Army to be deuided p r ceueing it would 
haue been very much disgufting to them if we fhould haue parted, and 
therefore turned down to m r Smiths 16 on y e 4 th inftant, and on y e fift 
inftant (upon former enformation of great ftoor of indians in these parts) 
dreft boston Neck 17 and the neck at pint Juda, 18 but fond but one old worn 
an who was left afleep : and made m r Stantons 7 farme house at (mona 
contauge) 8 with all o r force at night, and are now pafsing Towerds 
you, my councill and sould rs alfoe being impatient without liberty might 
be granted for their lookeing home wards becaus of their prefsing 
occafions 

was conftrayned to grant that o r Cavaly should looke homewards 
and that Newhauen & Fairfield sould rs should pafs homewards 
to be ready when called againe, or if yo r pleafure should be 
for a p r fuett after y e enemye, that they may r)e turned back at 
New Hauen where (I doubt not) yo r order may meet them, we 
thought if we fhould ftaye in thefe parts we muft fuck o r fing rs 
or eat up the peoples prouifion to satisfie hung r : for o r 
indians (we conceiue) would not be ready under a weeks time at 
fooneft, and underftand there is noe meat layd in for o r sould rs 
if we fhould turn out againe, and therefore muft haue ftayed here a Ion 
=ge time before we could fet out againe, and not knowing what occafion 



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might be towards yo r north bounds, thought it as cheap for the Country 
that we should be turning homewards as lying ftill here, hopeing 
we fhall be ready to receiue and obferve yo r further orders, when 
declared, M r Fitch 19 can giue you a more perticuller ace* of Matters 
whom I haue defired to wayt upon you with thefe few lynes, and at 
prefent shall giue you noe furth r trouble but with subfcription 
of my felfe hon d : s rs : yo r unworthy ser* : John Tallcott 20 /. 

postfcript : M r Fitch 19 Cap 1 : Denifon 21 Cap 1 

Nub r y: 22 Cap 1 Standly 23 Cap 1 : manf field 24 
& Cap* : Sellick 25 with m r bulkly 26 
& the reft of o r officers defire 
to psent y r feruice to you./ 

* 

Connecticut State Library 
Connecticut Archives. War I 97. 



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Richard Smith's Petition 



To the honn rb11 The Comifhionors of the united 
Colloneys fitting at hartford the 5 daye of Septmb. 
1684 in his maieitys Collony of Coneticott 



The humbell petition of Richard Smith of wickford 
in the nanhiganfett Sheweth that yo r petitioner in 
the time of the Late trouballs & wars with the indyans 
here att nanhiganfett did fuffer muche in his eftate by 
entertayning the maney Companeys of souders at 
his Coft & Charge : fent up by the Colloneys for which 
noe recompense hath it bin done to yo r petitioner 
1st maior savige & Companyes with aboutt 6 hundred 
& Coneticott forfes with him under comand of Capt 
winthrop : they had horse fhooss & nayls to valewe 3^ 1 
besyds theyer intertaynment 8 or 10 days never pd 
on farthing after which the entertaynment of 
the whole Armey : my felefe and fix of my fervants 
being one fervice one of which was flayne at the 
swamp fight, had no aloweens for our fervis : also 
26 hed of Catell killed & eate by the foulders with 
100 gootes att leaft & att Leaft 30 fatt hoges all the 
Coper brafs & woden vefells : for the armeys ufe fpoyld 
ftole & Loft to the valewe of nere ioo lbs fterling 
great parte of my poft & rayle fences being feched 
& burent by the foulders my oxen & Carts & utenfills 
being all Loft' after the garifon went awaye: 
& Laftly my houfing burent being of greate valewe 
al which is to much for one particular man to bare 
I having bin to my utmoft power redy to ferve the 



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Cuntry alwayes in what I could, nor ever had aney 
thing alowed me for all above exprefed, only : for what 
the Comafsarys kept an aco : of which was moftly the 
provifions kept by me by order for ufe of the armey : — 
other men have had satiffaction in some mefeuer & when 
I laft petitioned yo r honnors att Bofton I had a promife 
of Confideration : wherfor this 2d time I doe requeft 
yo r honnors to take the premifes into yo r judifheus & 
wife Confideration : to alowe me in yo r wifdom whatt 
you fhall thinke requefsett & yo r petitioner fhall praye 
etc : & fubfcribe yo r honnors obleged & humbell fervant 

Richd Smith 

wickford in nanhigansett 
Firft day of septem 1684 

Connecticut State Library 

Connecticut Archives. Colonial Boundaries 1 : 159, 



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THE ACTION OF THE COMMISSIONERS 



At a meeting of the Commissioners for the United Colonies, 
the 5th day of September, 1684; at Hartford. 

Forasmuch as at a former meeting of Commissioners at 
Boston, August 25th, 1679, it was then agreed upon that the 
case of Mr. Richard Smith, of Narragansett, should be consid- 
ered, that he might have some allowance made him for the 
great charge he was at in maintaining of our soldiers when at 
his house, several times, and for that he was so greatly ser- 
viceable himself ; — it is therefore hereby concluded that forty 
pounds in money shall be paid to said Richard (Smith,) in 
full, in such proportion as the Articles direct. The Massa- 
chusetts to pay of this, 21L. 10s. 6d. ; Plymouth to pay 6L. 
3s. 2d.; Connecticut to pay 12L. 6s. 4d. 

Colonial Records of Connecticut, Vol. Ill, p. 511. 



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THE ACTION OF THE GENERAL COURT 
OF CONNECTICUT 



Whereas the Com rs have ordered twelve pownd six shillings 



and fower pence in money to be payd to Mr. Richard Smith 
for expence upon o r soldiers and service don in the last war, 
which is the colony's proportion of forty pownds, the Court 
orders the Treasurer to see it payd as soone as may be. 

Court of October 9, 1684. 

Colonial Records of Connecticut, Vol. Ill, 157. 

This Court doe desire and impower Major John Tallcot and 
Mr. John Wadsworth to joyne with the colony Treasurer to 
order the dissposeall of what money shall be gathered as- afoar- 
sayd, for the defraying of the colony debts due unto Mr. Rich- 
ard Wharton and Mr. Richard Smith, or any other to whome 
we are indebted in money; and to receive acquittances or dis- 
charges from them upon their payment of what shall appeare 
to be due to them or either of them. 

Court of October, 1684. 

Colonial Records of Connecticut, Vol. Ill, 163. 



ACCOUNTS OF THE COLONY TREASURER, OCTOBER, 1685. 



Cash. 



Li, 



s. 



d. 



To Mr. Wharton at Boston, 

To Mr. Rich d Smith, Narragansett, 

To Capt. Peleg Sanford, 

Hartford, Octob r 14 th , 1685. 



85. 



12. 



10. 



00. 



12. 



01 



00 



Colonial Records of Connecticut, Vol. Ill, 343. 



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Notes 



Notes 



1. This man was of Lyme and may have been one of the 
family of Lee of that place. In 1679 Edward Lay of Portsmouth 
bought of William Clark the north half of John Paine's land on 
Boston Neck. It is possible that this Edward was a kinsman of 
the son of John and Abigail, for in his will he mentions his brother 
John's eldest son. It is worth investigation. The land in ques- 
tion was just north of Saunderstown ; see the Colonial Land Evi- 
dence in the Secretary of State's office, volume I, p. 179. 

2. Major John Cranston was a physician, as well as commander 
of all the forces of the Colony, hence his care of the wounded. 
Born in 1626, he died March 2, 1680. In 1678, 1679 anc * 1680 he 
was Governor. 

3. This letter was addressed to Governor Josiah Winslow of 
Plymouth, who commanded, nominally at least, the Colonial army 
in the Swamp Fight campaign. Dr. Cooper, in his letter to Con- 
necticut gives a copy of Winslow's letter to him urging him to 
care for "foe many of them as you can mannag." 

4. Constant Southworth, of Plymouth Colony, 161 5-1679, was 
Commissary-General in King Philip's War. 

5. Peleg Sanford, son of John Sanford, President of Ports- 
mouth in 1653, was born May 10, 1639, and died in 1701. He was 
prominent in the Newport settlement. At this date he held the 
rank of Major. He was with Church at the death of King Philip. 
He was Governor of Rhode Island from 1680 to 1683. 

Messrs. Ellis and Morris, King Philip's War> page 170, note, 
say that he lived " about half a mile south of the present Ports- 
mouth line." 

6. John Allyn, of Hartford, was secretary of the Connecticut 
Colony 1663-65 and 1667- 169 5. He was town clerk of Hartford 
from 1659 till 1696, the year in which he died. 

7. Thomas Stanton, of Stonington, was well known as an inter- 
preter of the Indian language. He was probably a brother of 
Robert of Newport (Austin). 



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8. This is now spelled Quonochontaug. The location of the 
house is not known to us. It was no doubt inhabited by a tenant 
in time of peace, but could hardly have been occupied at this date. 
Thomas Stanton's son Joseph was living at Quonochontaug in 1698 
(Austin). 

9. Nipsachooke, or Nipsachuck, was and is a swamp south of 
the Tarkiln station on the railroad between Providence and 
Pascoag. 

10. The Sunksquaw was a sister of Ninigret, and was the wife of 
Meika, Meakshaw or Maxanno, a brother of Miantonomi (Potter). 

11. Watawaikeson was the messenger from the Connecticut 
Council of War to Pessacus (Ellis and Morris, p. 249). 

12. Pessacus was another brother of Miantonomi. He was 
also called Maussup, Canonicus, Sucquans or Quissucquansh. 

13. Capt. Allyn was the Secretary of the Connecticut Colony, 
already referred to. 

14. Providence neck was what is now called the " East Side," 
that is the land between the Providence River and the Seekonk. 

15. Still so called. 

16. Richard Smith, jr. He lived about a mile north of Wick- 
ford, on the east side of the Post Road, on what is now called the 
Babbitt Farm. The house now standing there was built after the 
war. 

17. Boston Neck is the land between the Bay on the east and 
Narrow or Pettaquamscut river on the west. It stretches from 
the outlet of the river near Narragansett Pier, to the present 
village of Hamilton. 

Its Indian name was Namcook. It was possibly called Boston 
Neck because some of the purchasers were Massachusetts men. 

18. The early references to this place have this form, not Point 
Judith. 



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19. Rev. James Fitch, of Norwich, had, under orders from the 
Connecticut authorities, organized a force of Pequots and Mohe- 
gans for the Swamp Fight campaign. 

20. Major John Talcott was put in chief command of the Con- 
necticut troops in November 1675. Major Treat was second in 
command. 

21. Capt. George Denison was of Stonington. He commanded 
a Connecticut company in the Swamp Fight. 

22. Capt. Benjamin Newberry was of Windsor. 

23. Capt. John Stanley was sent out with the Hartford County 
soldiers after the Swamp Fight. (Bodge, p. 184.) 

24. Capt. Moses Mansfield was of New Haven. As a lieuten- 
ant he was sent out after the Swamp Fight with a New Haven 
company. 

25. Capt. John Sellick was sent out, after the Swamp Fight, 
in command of a Fairfield company. 

26. Rev. Gershom Bulkly, of Wethersfield, was at the Swamp 
Fight as Surgeon of the Connecticut troops. 



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